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View synonyms for bathing beauty

bathing beauty

[ bey-thing ]

noun

  1. an attractive woman in a bathing suit, especially an entrant in a beauty contest.


bathing beauty

/ ˈbeɪðɪŋ /

noun

  1. an attractive girl in a swimming costume Also called (old-fashioned)bathing belle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bathing beauty1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

MGM hired her a day later for a brief role in “Bathing Beauty” — she spoke two lines in the film, which starred Esther Williams and Red Skelton — then dropped her.

I’m a bathing beauty and an ex-Broadway showgirl, so I like to soak in the bath with Epsom salt.

Nicholaw gave us a five-minute high-speed chase ballet that was clearly a tribute to Jerome Robbins’s “Bathing Beauty” number in “High Button Shoes,” from 1947.

His mother was a onetime Mack Sennett “Bathing Beauty” who became a body double for silent-movie star Clara Bow and, briefly, a stuntwoman in westerns.

This isn’t a bathing beauty, such as Picasso would have seen in paintings by Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. but a woman caught in the all-too-human awkwardness of trying to bathe a body in a shallow tub in a crummy bedroom.

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